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Arkavite [0.21.0-A] - The Village, Objectives, Swift Knights & Seggz

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Contemplating Construction

As part of village construction, I have been amassing a collection of prefabs, and I figure now would be a good time to mention a couple of my ideas regarding player base construction. I think we have two options to consider.

Method 1 involves placing exterior facades, creating an interior space that resembles a self-contained world, similar to the interior environments found in Skyrim or Stardew. These buildings can be a lot bigger on the inside, and you can decorate them however you wish. This method would quite easily let you have magic houses and tents you could pick up and relocate.

On the other hand, method 2 would be your standard modular building system. Build and place walls, doors, roofs, etc. Thereafter, you can proceed with interior design the same way you would in method 1.

Method 1 is certainly the more performance-friendly option on its face and does not place as much emphasis on exterior design, but it is not as seamless, and having a façade forced upon you may be considered restrictive by more confident builders.

From the feedback I’ve gathered so far, it sounds like method 2 is the more popular approach and is what I’ll be pursuing primarily unless I hear more from you. I still think it would be cool to have method 1 later down the road even if it’s in some limited capacity and reserved for special items. Think of a “house in a box" or magic tents that are bigger on the inside. I am also considering the feasibility of magical artifacts or magic that lets you pick up your whole house to relocate it. Put it in a snow globe or marble, and plop it down somewhere else later. All things to consider once the base framework is up and running.

Plots For Players

Quest Objective Notifications

We now have a quest notification panel, which will notify you when an objective is completed or its completion status regresses. I’ve also tweaked some of the objective logic to correct an issue where completed objectives would repeatedly attempt to advance after already having advanced.

Additionally, repeatable quests will no longer remain in the player log post-completion. There was a suggestion to have repeatable quests remain logged, but display a counter for how many times you have completed it. It's a great suggestion and I'll be taking it on board for a later update.

New Recipes

I’ve added several potion crafting recipes based on the transformative properties of our current set of raw ingredients. You might also notice the appearance of both the cooking and crafting stations has been updated. The crafting station now resembles a hammer and anvil. It’s a little more compact and is more distinct than a regular table with a cloth draped over it. The crafting station has also gained a few recipes. You may now break down arka crystals for use in potion production.

 

Sex n’ Preg Developments

Apparel Updates

I’ve updated and added back the eyewear items, which have been missing since the body update. These items used a different attachment method than standard apparel, which is why they were skipped, but they’re back now.

We also have a new knight armor set. The new armor set is “The Swift Knight's” armor set. It is a skimpy, trimmed-down variant of the first set. Once we have equipment buffs in, this set will serve as a higher-grade variant of the original that's lighter weight and has a lower movement penalty while not compromising on protection.

Implementation of this set involved some modification of the equipment system to support skin-tight clothing. Equips can now draw textures directly onto the player skin. This was used to create the leotard, thigh highs, and upper-arm sleeves of the set. This will allow bodysuits and other skin-tight clothing elements to be created quite easily. It should also make creating underwear sets a lot easier, as the common issue with those is that they need to hug the player body tightly, which complicates masking of sub-layers and creation of body morphs.

Furthermore, I’ve made a slight change to the layering and masking procedure. Equipment that is masked (hidden) will no longer be considered when building the masking rules. i.e., a higher layer item (e.g., skimpy knight armor) may hide a shirt being worn below it to avoid clipping but not the player's torso (skin), as you want skin to remain visible. Previously, if the shirt below the armor was set up to mask the torso layer below it, then hiding the shirt would result in the player appearing to have no torso beneath their armor. The new approach, which only considers visible equipment when building masking rules, should lessen the rate of clipping and avoid the body void issue when mixing sets.

On that note, this new armor set can be combo'd with different underwear if you wish to forgo the leotard.

And So It Continues...

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Questing, Balance, Encumbrance & Interacting

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The new dialog framework has also been applied to items in the environment to make them interactable. Certain objects may greet you with an INSPECT or READ prompt as you approach them. This gives the set pieces some more lore and substance. There are now signs posted outside what is developing into a little guild outpost. These changes should make it harder for newcomers to miss.

As I’ve been building up across the last few updates, we now have a quest system. Most bases are covered. We have quest tracking, progression, one-time and repeatable quests, quest rewards and deductions (for quests requesting items), and so on. The system is over-engineered on the backend, as I’m accounting for all possible cases to ensure we scale better over time. However, this approach does come with the downside of the current system being slightly temperamental. If you run into any errors for the existing quests, please let me know.

• A request for a lot of bread.
• A request for rare jelly.
• A slime kill quest.
• A series of scout quests, which simply involve reaching certain dungeon floors.
• The lost adventurer quest.

Encumbrance & Item Stats

• Change: Reduced amount items new characters start with in their inventory.
• Change: Minor corrections to several items food stats. 
• Added: Debug pregnancy item to shop, which I am using to test morphs and the progression, but you can mess with it yourself. This build only includes nude morphs.
• Added: Additional orifice options for Eggyokel.
• Fixed: Issue where Eggyokel would not appear in the list of selected traits during play.
• Fixed: Minor corrections to arka crystal naming conventions.

Project Arkavite [0.19.3-A] - Public Release & Progress Update

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This is a very fix-heavy build, with the latest patches having come out on the 13th and 17th as I kept discovering issues, but we should be a lot more stable now. If you happen to encounter any issues while playing, please be sure to let me know or submit a report on the server.

Other Progress & Upcoming Things

Changes

• Fixed: Issue where navigation buttons in player menus were hidden after interacting with station menus (i.e. Quest Board, Bed, Crafting & Cooking Stations).

• Fixed: Issue where spawned loot items on the map were not being culled when moving between levels, leading to performance loss.
• Fixed: Issue where creating Magu race character repeatedly allows you to reach max hearts. Hearts were not reset when creating new characters.
• Fixed: Issue where starting a new game did not reset currency.
• Fixed: Issue were some BGM and AMB would cut out if volume settings were lowered to minimum.
• Fixed: Issue where male player voice did not output any SFX when hurt.
• Change: Updated player/enemy/combat SFX volume and attenuation. Added attenuation where it was missing and lowered volume where too loud.
• Change: Audio system C++ conversion and refactor. This upgrade should resolve several outstanding audio issues.
  • Fixed: Issue where BGM doesn't tick while window is unfocused resulting in the next track being delayed or not playing at all.
  • Fixed: Issue when moving between levels BGM does not fade out while the game is paused.
  • Change: Reduced unnecessary dependencies on audio system.
  • Change: Minor UI SFX changes occurred when refactoring the audio system.

• Fixed: Issue where falling off the map would not trigger level reload.
• Fixed: Issue where falling off the map when dead would result in the player cursor being hidden in the death screen. The load transition temporarily obstructs the view of the death screen, so rather than unloading the level, time will now stop.
• Fixed: Issue where falling into the shop's sell hole would trigger a crash as a result of invalid collision settings triggering player deletion.
• Fixed: Issue where player could climb merchant interaction collider
• Fixed: Issues with merchant desk collision and mantling. It is no longer possible to mantle over the merchant desks or desk props.
• Fixed: Issue where entity widgets (target markers, damage numbers, health bars) could be climbed on when approaching entities from the right height and angle, thus resulting in the appearance of the player seemingly climbing over nothing.
• Fixed: Issue where rolling boulders would not trigger player damage as a result of player hitbox changes. Boulder damage and ragdolling have been reworked. Boulders will now knockback and ragdoll a player on hit once the boulder is above a certain velocity.
• Added: Boulder attack SFX.
• Added: Boulder impact collision SFX.
• Fixed: Issue where target indicator would not appear above turrets.
• Fixed: Issue where enemy HP bars were off-center.
• Fixed: Issue where equipping a spell would destroy currently held guns.
• Change: Variable damage added to prototype gun.
• Change: Prototype gun rounds improved collision detection.
• Added: Prototype gun to shop.
• Change: Shop/Craft item search will now match based on item category and type as well as display name.
• Change: Made a few item cost changes. Nothing major. A proper rebalance is coming soon.
• Fixed: Issue where some items would not be deducted from the inventory upon dropping them. Most notably, metal bars, wheat, and rice. Issue caused by old droppable item categorization being too specific. Now all items marked as droppable can be dropped.
• Fixed: Issue where BGM playlist kept switching between tracks without playing them through (while on the sky islands level) and kept switching between day and night tracks regardless of the time of day.
• Fixed: Issue where the BGM (Background Music) playlist would not trigger the next track after the current track had finished, while the game was paused.
• Change: Improved BGM volume balance for new audio.
• Change: Improved transition between BGM tracks for new audio. Crossfade has been tightened to make the BGM loop better.
• Fixed: Incorrect BGM titles.
• Change: Reduced player post-hit i-frames (invulnerability frames) from 1 second to 0.25. This makes enemy attacks feel a little more impactful (especially when the player is being ganged up on), and turrets, which fire a volley of shots in quick succession, function better. Up till now, a lot of attacks would phase through the player.
• Added: Inventory equipment usage SFX based on item type.
• Added: Slime attack SFX.
• Added: DebugHeart item to the shop. This item allows the user to increase their current number of hearts.
• Added: Prop collision SFX for items.
• Change: Removed many of the items cluttering the player inventory as they are now easily accessible via the shop. Item quantities have been adjusted.
• Fixed: Issue where empty bottles would phase through terrain when dropped.

• Fixed: Issue - Sprinting While Crouched Or Ragdolling Consumes Stamina But Does Not End Crouch/Ragdoll
• Fixed: Issue where loincloth underwear failed to mask peen.
• Fixed: Issue where chestwrap would mask peen instead of loincloth underwear.
• Fixed: Issue where slimes fail to rotate-to-face on hit
• Changed: Enemy line of sight check
• Fixed: Coins physics simulation
• Added: UI based shop system for buying items
• Added: A shop NPC you can purchase goods from and sell goods to.
• Added: Bronze bar item
• Change: Craft / Shop item search now only matches on display name due to issues with false positives in item description match
• Added: Location Title now displays upon loading into a new area
• Added: Dungeon floor number now displays each time you descend to the next floor
• Added: Placeholder quest board UI route
• Fixed: Issue where inventory could be triggered while quest board or shop were on screen
• Change: Ambient music now plays while paused and in menus
• Added: New BGM playlists for day and night. Playlists are shuffled every day cycle.
• Fixed: Issues with player slot (inventory / equip) data duplication
• Fixed: Changes made to how player items (inventory / equip) are loaded from save data. An inventory cleanup pass will now be triggered on load, to remove any items with defunct IDs, and update item data for remaining items. This is all to ensure when loading saves from previous builds, icons, descriptions, values, and any other properties which may have changed between versions, are updated.
• Fixed issue where the frame rate limit setting was not saving or updating
• Change: Updated font used on rift gates

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